Military Payment Certificates (MPC)

Here are two examples of the Military Payment Certificates (MPC)
used by most Australian service personnel in Vietnam. For details
of all MPC series, see Douglas Bell's excellent MPC site at www.papermoneyworld.net

These certificates were used in the Post Exchange (PX) or
other camp facilities, but could be exchanged for limited amounts
of Vietnamese currency. They could also be exchanged for US
or other currencies by Allied service men and women going on Rest
and Recreation leave (R&R) or returning to the US or
Australia.

The US authorities hoped to thwart black marketing and
hoarding by using the 'scrip'. The amounts which could be
exchanged were limited, and entire series were, from time to
time, exchanged without notice. After a very short time,
the old series would be totally withdrawn from circulation and no
further exchanges could be made